The flat Starlink satellites may only be around 500 lbs each but this batch of 60 marks the critical first deployment of a constellation that will eventually number 12,000. An initial attempt to launch the Starlink satellites on May 15 was called off due to high winds aloft. This image shows a previous SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral.

The Mississippi River at Chester on Friday was at almost 37 feet with the weather service forecasting it to crest at more than 43 feet by Monday. Davenport Mayor Frank Klipsch said there were no reported injuries. The NWS already issued flood warnings for areas directly on either side of the river in 10 states, from Minnesota and Wisconsin so...

The 2019 edition of the organization's annual "State of the Air" report , released today, April 24, ranked Denver as the twelfth-worst out of 228 metropolitan areas for ozone pollution, which poses a wide variety of respiratory, cardiovascular and developmental health risks.

Kenney did eventually get around to mentioning those who did not vote for the UCP. During its four years in power, Notley's NDP passed a "bubble zone" law banning pro-life witness outside abortion centers, sought to expand abortion access across the province, aggressively pushed the LGBTQ agenda in schools, and attacked homeschooling and faith-ba...

The first full moon of April is commonly known as the pink moon . The pink moon will be visible tomorrow (stock image). When is the April fill moon and will it turn pink? . The hoaxers originally set their green moon - full or otherwise - for April 20, which might also be referred to as 4-20, to include a street reference for marijuana in ...

EDT under clear skies and tolerable winds. The Falcon Heavy's liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center created a spectacle, just as it did during the maiden launch. However, with Musk's company intent on driving down launch costs by recycling rocket parts, the boosters for this flight may be re-used for future missions.

The first two side boosters managed to land eight minutes after launch, touching down nearly simultaneously (again!) on the company's concrete landing pads along the Florida coast. Extensive modifications to LC-39A have been made to support launches of both commercial and crew missions on SpaceXs Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.

They are accepted by the scientific community in spite of an embarrassing admission: nobody has ever directly seen one. First of all, how does the bright ring around the hole form? "We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole", announced Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard, leader of the project.

SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket yesterday, ferrying the Arabsat-6A satellite to geosynchronous orbit in its first commercial mission. It was the first time the company had landed all three boosters for Falcon Heavy. When did SpaceX launch the Falcon rocket? "Three for three boosters today", a SpaceX webcast commentator said. So, th...

Satheesh Reddy said on Saturday that extensive simulations done before the anti-satellite test (A-SAT) had shown that there was no possibility of the debris of the destroyed satellite hitting the International Space Station (ISS). This test covers all LEO satellites, including those for military use", Dr. Reddy said, adding that hitting multiple sa...

As early as July, Ripley the dummy astronaut could be followed by the real deal , as two Americans are scheduled to take off aboard the first crewed Crew Dragon , ending a drought of astronaut launchings from American soil that began in the summer of 2011 when the last space shuttle flew and the program was mothballed.

It's expected to parachute into the Atlantic Ocean, which will be a couple of hundred miles off Florida's coast. It marks the 35th such recovery by SpaceX . Boeing aims to conduct the first test flight of its Starliner capsule in April, with astronauts on board possibly in August. All this particular mission is carrying is a test dummy and 90kg ...

Both Boeing and SpaceX are hoping to have a manned flight later this year. After the shuttle program was shuttered in 2011 after a 30-year run, NASA began outsourcing the logistics of its space missions. At Saturday's post-launch news conference, Musk said he'd be happy to fly on the revamped Dragon. Crew Dragon is carrying a dummy named Ri...

The creatures are about 1.5 inches long, has a 2.5 inch wingspan, and has been referred to as a " nightmare bee ". It wasn't seen again for decades, making it the "holy grail" of bees. Last month, Bolt and his colleagues embarked on a search for termite mounds in trees in Indonesia , the last place a scientist spotted the species.

Tonight you will see a bigger and brighter full moon . "In ancient times, people across Europe and Native Americans used the moon to track the seasons", according to the Old Farmer's Almanac . Whatever names the February moon may be known by, one thing you can be sure of is that you won't need any special equipment to see it. Generally, a sup...

SNC-Lavalin faces the possibility of being banned from federal contracts - a key portion of its work - for a decade if the company is convicted of bribery and fraud linked to the company's efforts to secure business in Libya. Any accusation that "I or the staff put pressure on the Attorney General (Wilson-Raybould) is not true", Butts said in a sta...

Created to last only about 90 Martian days and travel only 1,100 yards on the Red Planet, the Opportunity rover went on to explore Earth's dusty neighbor for over 14 years, zig-zagging almost 30 miles across the planet. The Opportunity rover's legacy is firmly in place as the Mars InSight lander, which touched down on Mars last fall, is now beg...

Screenshot of Ocasio's House website. The announcement of the Green New Deal came as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tapped eight Democrats to serve on a special committee to address climate change . 'The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it right?' she said , mocking the democratic socialist's effort.

Translation: Unless your travel is essential this week, stay home. Elsewhere, a bridge in the western MI community of Newaygo, 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Grand Rapids was closed as the ice-jammed Muskegon River rose above flood stage.

The term blood moon isn't a scientific term but one coined colloquially. Laura Clays captured a stunning photograph of the moon just after the eclipse. "At that time, the Earth's shadow will begin to pass in front of the moon, blocking nearly all of the sun's light from reaching it. Observers will see the moon appear to be progressively "swallo...

He plans to attend an eclipse party at Hallock State Park Preserve on New York's Long Island. A Super Moon is when the moon is on it's closest part of its orbit around Earth, it's perigee. As NASA explains , Earth casts a red shadow because of how our atmosphere scatters light. You will be able to see the eclipse with the naked eye, but if y...

The image from the China National Space Administration shows the first image of the moon's far side taken by China's Chang'e-4 probe. The plans underscore China's ambitions in space at a time when the USA is curtailing NASA's budget and increasingly handing over space exploration to commercial adventurers, the Washington Post reported on Monday...

Alan Stern , principal investigator for New Horizons , said: 'It is only really the size of something like Washington DC and it is about as reflective as garden variety dirt. And the images confirmed what observations using the Hubble Space Telescope had suggested as New Horizons scientists scouted Ultima Thule - that, like parts of Pluto ...

While most U.S. national parks remain open, the shutdown has left staff at home, facilities unavailable and campsites closed . In Yoshua Tree national Park in California the camping sites close, because there was bickering and not simply ends Ranger.

Strong winds are scheduled to arrive with the heaviest snow on Thursday. Travelers are warned to keep up to date with weather forecasts and to know what the weather will be like at their destination, Edwards says. December 27, 2018A major snowstorm will strike New Mexico tonight through Saturday, with significant snow accumulation. The section ...

SpaceX sued the US Air Force in 2014 over the military's award of a multi-billion-dollar non-compete contract for 36 rocket launches to United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Boeing and Lockheed. The following year, SpaceX won a $83 million Air Force contract to dispatch the GPS III satellite, which will have a life expectancy of 15 years. The ...

On Friday 21 December the northern hemisphere experiences something called the Winter solstice. CHINA: The Winter solstice marks the end of the harvest season and is celebrated with family gatherings and a big meal, including rice balls called tang yuan.

The spacecraft was piloted by Mark Stucky and former NASA astronaut Frederick "CJ" Sturckow. The rocket motor burnt for 60 seconds and the aircraft travelled at 2.9 times the speed of sound in today's test flight . The US government has awarded astronaut wings to pilots who ventured farther than roughly 80km beyond earth's surface. Reaching th...

Two sensors picked up the vibrations: an air pressure sensor inside the lander and a seismometer on the lander's deck, awaiting to be deployed to the surface by InSight's robotic arm. JPL's Tom Hoffman, project manager for the InSight mission, said the view will be a bit hazy, due to dust and debris that was thrown up during last week's landin...

Company CEO Alan Musk wrote on Twitter , "The grid in hydraulic pump stops, that's why the Falcon could only land in the sea". But trying to get back to the launch site in Florida, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket fell into the Atlantic ocean.

China's emissions accounted for 27% of the global total, having grown an estimated 4.7% in 2018 and reaching a new all-time high. Mohamed Adow, worldwide climate lead for Christian Aid, said poor people in developing countries most exposed to climate hazards simply can not wait.

Having launched on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as it enters the atmosphere of Mars, InSight will be traveling at 14,100 miles per hour. All this happens in less than 7 minutes without any help from engineers and scientists back at JPL . One thing it will do is emit radio waves that we can monitor on Earth.

Scientists expect Mars 2020 to yield at least five different types of rock, including the kinds of clays and carbonates that are most likely to preserve chemical biosignatures. NASA is the only space agency to have successfully carried out mission on Mars. This image of the Jezero Crater delta combines information from two instruments on NASA's...

Speaking at the British-Irish Council summit on the Isle of Man, Mr Varadkar said he was hopeful a Brexit deal could be done by the end of the year but it would not amount to a "clean break" as talks would have to continue. This so-called "backstop to the backstop" would see Northern Ireland become wedded to the EU single market and customs union...

These data will enable new scientific discoveries for years to come. It explored an area of 150,000 stars in the Cygnus constellation. TESS builds on Kepler's foundation with fresh batches of data in its search of planets orbiting some 200,000 of the brightest and nearest stars to the Earth, worlds that can later be explored for signs of life b...

The Supreme Court-appointed body, Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) on 25 October warned that air pollution in Delhi is likely to peak from 1 November as poisonous fumes from the stubble-burning areas of Haryana and Punjab could surge in due to change in the wind direction.

NASA's Operation IceBridge , which monitors polar ice using plane surveys, has been going on for a decade. A typical large iceberg that breaks off an ice shelf , called a "tabular" iceberg , will have a flat top and steep sides like the one spotted by IceBridge.

Arriva Trains Wales and Great Western Railway have cancelled trains across Wales. Motorists were also warned over tricky driving conditions brought by Callum , with several roads and highways in Cumbria impassable owing to floodwater. Today, Sunderland has taken a drenching with very little let-up in the torrential weather - and it's set to ...

The rocket, carrying an American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut, began to plummet to earth about two minutes into the six-hour mission due to what launch controllers initially called a " vehicle malfunction ". The Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted that it's creating a formal commission to investigate the rocket failure. NASA and Roscosm...

As rescue crews arrived, Hague and Ovchinin were reported in " good condition " and found out of the capsule . A Soyuz capsule carrying a US astronaut and Russian cosmonaut completed an emergency landing in Russia about 40min. The space agency recently announced the nine astronauts that will crew the test flights and first missions of the S...